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SHEIKH HASINA, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born on 28 September, 1947 at Tungipara under Gopalganj district. She is the eldest of five children of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of independent Bangladesh.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina received prestigious Pearl S. Buck Award '99 on 9 April 2000 in recognition of her vision, courage, achievements in political, economic and humanitarian fields by Randolph Macon Women's College of USA. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has been awarded the prestigious CERES' medal to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in recognition to her fight against hunger on 02 August, 1999. The All India Peace Council awarded her 'Mother Teresa Award' in 1998. The Mahatma M K Gandhi Foundation of Oslo, Norway awarded Sheikh Hasina 'M K Gandhi Award' for 1998 for her contribution towards promotion of communal understanding, non violent religions harmony and growth of democracy at the level of grassroots in Bangladesh. Sheikh Hasina was named Paul Haris Fellow by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. She was also given Medal of Distinction in 1996-97 and 1998-99 and Head of State Medal in 1996-97 by the International Association of Lions Clubs.
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Rebecca Bellone
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2001 University of Kentucky, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
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Rebecca Bellone specializes in veterinary science, specifically molecular biology related to animal genetics. Her research interests focus on the genetic basis of coat color and associated disorders in the horse. Her main project investigates the genes responsible for leopard complex spotting (also known as appaloosa spotting) as well as the association of one of these genes, namely
with an eye disorder called congenital stationary night blindness. She is also interested in other genetic aspects of the horse including eye color and morphometric traits.
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and is a co-investigator in internationally funded collaborations. She is frequently invited to speak at international conferences about the genetics of horse spotting. She is a member of the International Society of Animal Genetics and Equine Science Society, as well as Alpha Epsilon Delta honor society.
Her recent publications include:
Pruvost, M.,
Bellone, R
., Beneck, N., Sandoval-Castellanos, E.,
Cieslak, M.,
Kuznetsova, T.,
Morales-Muñiz, A.,
T., Reissmann, M., Hofreiter, M., & Arne Ludwig (2011) Genotypes of predomestic horses match phenotypes painted in Paleolithic works of cave art. PNAS 108 (46):186260-18630.
Sandmeyer, L. S.,
Bellone, R. R.,
Archer, S., Bauer, B. S., Nelson, J., Forsyth, G. and Grahn, B. H. (2011), Congenital stationary night blindness is associated with the leopard complex in the miniature horse. Veterinary Ophthalmology. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-5224.2011.00903.x
Brooks, S.A.,
Makvandi-Nejad, S., Chu, E., Allen, J., Streeter, C., Gu, E., McCleery, B., Murphy, B.A.,
Bellone, R
., and Sutter, N.B. (2010) Morphological Variation in the Horse: Defining Complex Traits of Body Size and Shape.
Animal Genetics
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Bellone R.R.
, S. ArcherS., Wade, C.M., Cuka-Lawson, C.,
Haase, B.,
Forsyth, G.,
Sandmeyer, L., and Grahn, B. (2010) Association analysis of candidate SNPs in
with leopard complex spotting (
) and congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) in horses.
Animal Genetics
41(Suppl. 2): 207.
Bellone, R.R
Pleiotropic effects of pigmentation genes in horses.
Animal Genetics
41(Suppl. 2): 100–110.
Bellone, R
., Forsyth, G., Leeb, T., Archer, S., Sigurdsson, S., Mauceli, E., Engensteiner, M., Bailey, E., Sandmeyer, L., Grahn, B.,
Lindblad-Toh, K., and Wade, C. (2010)
Fine-mapping and Mutation Analysis of
a Candidate Gene for
Leopard Complex
) Spotting and Congenital Stationary Night Blindness (CSNB) in Horses.
Briefings in Functional Genomics
9 (3):193-207.
Wade, C.M., Giulotto, E., Sigurdsson, S., Zoli, M., Gnerre, S., Imsland, F., Lear, T.L., Adelson, D.L., Bailey, E.,
Bellone, R.R.,
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Genome sequence, comparative analysis and population genetics of the domestic horse (
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Cook, D., Brooks, S.,
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., and Bailey, E.
Missense Mutation in Exon 2 of SLC36A1 Responsible for Champagne Dilution in Horses
PLoS Genetics
4(9): e1000195 doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000195
Bellone, R.,
Brooks, S., Murphy, B., Sandmeyer, L., Forsyth, G., Archer, S., Bailey, E., and Grahn, B. (2008) Differential gene expression of TRPM1, the potential cause of congenital stationary night blindness and coat spotting patterns (
) in Appaloosa horses
Equus caballus)
Honors and Awards
Bellone has received several awards as a scholar, including All-American Scholar as well as the Outstanding Student Research Award and the Outstanding Scholar award from the College of Natural and Health Sciences.
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A majority of infectious microorganisms (pathogens) either colonize or cross mucosal surfaces to enter the host. In order for the immune system to function properly and fight these pathogens, it must first be able to detect the presence of pathogens. This detection arm of the immune system surveys the inside and outside of cells for the presence of pathogens. Once a pathogen is detected, an alarm response is triggered which involves the production of immune proteins called cytokines and interferons from infected cells. These proteins aid the elimination of the pathogen by the immune system. A key part of the detection arm of the immune system that operates inside cells has recently been identified, namely the protein MPYS, also known as STING, MITA and TMEM173. In order to more fully understand how MPYS actually works, and how it contributes to eliminating pathogens, MPYS-deficient mice have been generated. These mice will be used to explore how a mammal copes with pathogen infections in the absence of MPYS and also to work out a better mucosal vaccine strategy to protect the host. The knowledge generated from this project will significantly advance our understanding of the mammalian immune response to pathogens, and ultimately lead to better health care.
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- Sialic acid binding domains of CD22 are required for negative regulation of B cell receptor signaling. Jin L, McLean PA, Neel BG, Wortis HH. J Exp Med. 2002 May 6;195(9):1199-205.
- MHC class II structural requirements for the association with Igalpha/beta, and signaling of calcium mobilization and cell death. Jin L, Stolpa JC, Young RM, Pugh-Bernard AE, Refaeli Y, Cambier JC. Immunol Lett. 2008 Mar 15;116(2):184-94. Epub 2007 Dec 26.
- MPYS, a novel membrane tetraspanner, is associated with major histocompatibility complex class II and mediates transduction of apoptotic signals. Jin L, Waterman PM, Jonscher KR, Short CM, Reisdorph NA, Cambier JC. Mol Cell Biol. 2008 Aug;28(16):5014-26. Epub 2008 Jun 16
- Cellular reactive oxygen species inhibit MPYS induction of IFNbeta. Jin L, Lenz LL, Cambier JC. PLoS One. 2010 Dec 10;5(12):e15142.
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One of those interesting science articles talking about addiction to money.
You've got a hold on me
Mark Buchanan
Last Updated: March 20. 2009 8:30AM UAE / March 20. 2009 4:30AM GMT
Dough, wonga, greenbacks, cash. Just words, you might say, but they carry an eerie psychological force. Chew them over for a few moments, and you will become a different person. Simply thinking about words associated with money seems to makes us more self-reliant and less inclined to help others. And it gets weirder: just handling cash can take the sting out of social rejection and even diminish physical pain.
This is all the stranger when you consider what money is supposed to be. For economists, it is nothing more than a tool of exchange that makes economic life more efficient. Yet money stirs up more passion, stress and envy than any axe or hammer ever could. We just cannot seem to deal with it rationally but why?
Even as a simple medium of exchange, money can take a bewildering variety of forms, from the strips of bark and feathers of old, through gold coins, pound notes and dollar bills, to data in a bank's computer – mostly cold, unemotional stuff. The value of £100 is supposed to lie in how much milk or fuel it can purchase and nothing else. You should care no more about being shortchanged £5 at the supermarket checkout than losing the same amount when borrowing money to buy a £300,000 house. Similarly, you should value £10 in loose change the same as £10 in your bank account that you have mentally set aside for your niece's birthday.
In reality we are not that rational. Instead of treating cash simply as a tool to be wielded with objective precision, we allow money to reach inside our heads and tap into the ancient emotional parts of our brain, often with unpredictable results. To understand how this affects our behaviour, some economists are starting to think more like evolutionary anthropologists.
Daniel Ariely of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of them.
He suggests that modern society presents us with two distinct sets of behavioural rules. There are the social norms, which are "warm and fuzzy" and designed to foster long-term relationships, trust and co-operation. Then there is a set of market norms, which revolve around competition, and encourage individuals to put their own interests first.
Experiments published in 2007 by Kathleen Vohs in the department of marketing at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis reveal that even a passing contact with concepts linked to money puts us into a market-orientated mentality, making us think and behave in characteristic ways. Volunteers who had been primed with the money-related words worked on the task for longer before asking for help. In a related experiment, people in the money-word group were also significantly less likely to help a fellow student who asked for assistance than were people in the group primed with non-money words.
Now that the days of easy credit and rampant consumerism appear to be over, for the time being at least, it would be nice to think that we might acquire a more balanced relationship with money. Unfortunately, it's unlikely to be that simple. One reason why is exposed by Prof Vohs's latest findings, to be published soon in the journal Psychological Science.
Prof Vohs and the psychologists Xinyue Zhou of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, and Roy Baumeister of Florida State University, Tallahassee, found that people who felt rejected by others, or were subjected to physical pain, were subsequently less likely to give a monetary gift in a game situation. The researchers then went on to show that just handling paper money could reduce the distress associated with social exclusion, and also diminish the physical pain caused by touching hot water.
The psychologists Stephen Lea at the University of Exeter, UK, and Paul Webley at the University of London believe that it acts on our minds rather like an addictive drug, giving it the power to drive some of us to compulsive gambling, overwork or obsessive behaviour "It is an interesting possibility that all these are manifestations of a broader addiction to money," says Prof Lea. Compulsion appears to be a problem for people with several money-related disorders which are increasingly being identified by psychologists.
Profs Lea and Webley propose that money, like nicotine or cocaine, can activate the brain's pleasure centres. There's even evidence for the notion of 'addiction' to money in brain imaging studies. In one experiment, for example, a team led by Samuel McClure, at Princeton University, asked volunteers to choose between receiving a voucher for Amazon.com right then, or a higher-value one a few weeks later. Those who chose the instant reward showed brain activity in the areas linked with emotion, especially the limbic system, which is known to be involved in much impulsive behaviour and drug addiction. Those choosing the delayed reward showed activity in areas such as the prefrontal cortex known to be involved in rational planning.
The idea that money taps into brain circuits evolved to make biologically important activities rewarding is given a further boost by another strange discovery. In an attempt to provide an evolutionary explanation for our motivation to strive for money in present-day societies, Barbara Briers of the HEC business school in Paris, France, and colleagues decided to test whether our appetite for cash is related to our appetite for food.
Hungry volunteers were less likely to donate to charity than those who were satiated; those primed to have a high desire for money, by having imagined winning a big lottery, went on to eat the most sweets in a taste test; and people whose appetites had been piqued by sitting in a room with a delicious smell, gave less money in a game situation than those who played in a normal-smelling room.Briers reckons this indicates that our brain processes ideas about money using the same pathways evolved to think about food. If she is correct, it puts a whole new spin on the term 'greedy bankers.'
As for the ever present question about whether money can make you happy, people with more money do tend to be happier – but only up to a point. That is the conclusion of the psychologists Ed Diener at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, who have reviewed numerous studies looking at the psychological effects of wealth. They report that money's impact on happiness suffers from diminishing returns.
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As for the ever present question about whether money can make you happy, people with more money do tend to be happier – but only up to a point.
I do believe that's true. You have less things to worry about or fight about in your marriage. Sometimes being able to feed your family or giving to sadaqah really can make one happy. One should always feel happy that Allah provides for them. May He always do so inshallah. I hope I never have the feeling where I can't give Sadaqah, worst feeling in the world
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We have equated money with happiness and security.
Sometimes we choose jobs or work for higher pay because we believe that the higher pay will lead to greater things. Really what we are trying to find is financial security.
When have these higher pay jobs - it comes at a high cost to family and social life. Perhaps its necessary in the short term to achieve short term goals - but it comes at the cost of long term goals.
What point is it to have the larger material things in your life if you cant' enjoy it with those you love the most - this is especially true with men in our families - they work their butts off to provide for their family - which we are grateful for - but when the time comes to enjoy time with the family later on in life, the kids have probably have grown up and are probably starting their own families - and sometime during that time husbands and wives grow apart (because they are too busy trying to build a life by working long hours) - which is why we see a spike in divorces after 25 years of marriage...
The thing that we are really looking for is security not money - we need to stop equating money as the key to security or position as the barometer of success - our success is our legacy.
Yes, security comes from Allah (swt), and nothing in this life is secure - but the range of security is relative between different circumstances. Why did many people leave South Asia, middle east and other parts of the world to come to UK or North America? They left behind in many cases, good jobs, beautiful homes, big families, potentially drivers, cooks, maids, etc who helped with many of the things in their lives - to this?
What legacy are we leaving for future generations? Ours parents started with us, then masjids and schools - but now what? This is where our focus should be as we move forward, what will our legacy be?
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